Lobban

A tartan of the Lobban family.

Its design is pattern RWRWKGRGGGRGKWRWRW — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.

The Lobban tartan is recorded as a single sett.

Sett	ΔTartan	Thread count	Threads	Date
Lobban		R/4 LB4 R4 LB24 K18 G24 R4 G4 Y10 G4 R4 G24 K18 LB24 R4 LB4 R4 LB/4	364	1985

Nearest tartans

The nearest NAMED TARTANS — each represented by its master sett — by ΔTartan distance from this tartan's master, which leads the table so the swatches line up against it.

ΔTartan

Threads

Variant

Sett

—

364

Lobban

2.27

280

Lee Cox

2.32

564

Norwich No.038

2.33

246

Hayama Shirt Honten, The

2.37

312

Valley of the

2.47

282

Carnegie Dress

2.54

364

Gayre

2.55

524

Langston

2.58

338

Maguire

2.64

186

Lobban

2.69

352

Gayre Bodyguard

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 10814 named tartans (their master setts) placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its master cloth. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.